Asking The Right Questions Is As Important

I Went To The Computer And Tried To Experiment. I Introduced A Very High Level Of Experiment In Very Pure Mathematics.

My Fate Has Been That What I Undertook Was Fully Understood Only After The Fact.

I Had Very, Very Little Training In Taking An Exam To Determine A Scientist's Life In France.

Science Would Be Ruined If (like Sports) It Were To Put Competition Above Everything Else, And If It Were To Clarify The Rules Of Competition By Withdrawing Entirely Into Narrowly Defined Specialties. The Rare Scholars Who Are Nomads-by-choice Are Essential To The Intellectual Welfare Of The Settled Disciplines.

I Conceived And Developed A New Geometry Of Nature And Implemented Its Use In A Number Of Diverse Fields. It Describes Many Of The Irregular And Fragmented Patterns Around Us, And Leads To Full-fledged Theories, By Identifying A Family Of Shapes I Call Fractals.